How can you make a revolution without executions?

The war is relentless: it puts the alternative in a ruthless relief: either to perish, or to catch up with the advanced countries and outdistance them, too, in economic matters.

It is stupid to tolerate Nikola; all Chekists have to be on alert to shoot anyone who doesn't turn up to work because of Nikola.

We can and must write in a language which sows among the masses hate, revulsion, and scorn toward those who disagree with us.

The war is relentless: it puts the alternative in a ruthless relief.

All our lives we fought against exalting the individual, against the elevation of the single person, and long ago we were over and done with the business of a hero, and here it comes up again: the glorification of one personality. This is not good at all.

Trust is good, but control is better.